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Linux programmer wins legal victory
A Linux programmer reported a new victory in a German court on Thursday in enforcing the General Public License, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms. Read more »
Distributed computing cracks Enigma code
More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. Read more »
IBM retools Global Services
Big Blue seeks higher, more profitable ground in the market for business computing services. Read more »
Flaw hunters pick holes in Oracle patches
Oracle, the business software maker that has marketed its products as "unbreakable," faces mounting criticism over its security practices. Read more »
Inside the Top500 supercomputers
Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers list to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Read more »
German coder beats WWII Colossus
A German coder has beaten the British team operating the legendary WWII code-breaking computer Colossus in a cipher-cracking contest. Read more »
Porn stats make mockery of AU censorship laws
Australia hosts more porn pages than any other country in the region despite strict laws designed to restrict adult content. Read more »
Microsoft CTO: ODF is an 'elegant' standard
The chief technology officer of Microsoft APAC thinks ODF is an elegant standard — if it is used alongside the Redmond giant's OOXML (Office Open XML) format. Read more »
Nanotechnology makes small the new big
The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, but nanoscale computing may soon make that achievement look elephantine, say some of the stars of information technology. Read more »
Teenager admits eBay domain hijack
German police said on Saturday that a 19-year-old from Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, has admitted to hijacking the domain of the eBay Germany Web site and is likely to face charges of computer sabotage, according to ZDNet Germany. Read more »
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The Age of Automation
The '60s and '70s were the decades of the mainframe. The '80s made up the decade of client-server computing. The '90s were the Internet years. Now we're entering the decade of the electronic butler. Read more »
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5 reasons restricting hacking is not like gun control
-- Let's get it out of the way: Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. People with hacking tools can steal your personal data, shut down your system and deface your web site -- but is that any reason to ban them? Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
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